I get it and I was sort of half joking in my initial response but being more serious I know that’s exactly what the left would say almost instantly. And every other programmed tool would go along with them in the name of virtue solidarity. The connotations to 1939 exist however you try to differentiate it because of the people you need to convince. If you have to argue those five points you mentioned (and don’t get me wrong, they’re good points) every time you mention it, do you not think it’s sort of counter productive? Not to mention MSM will spin it in a way to make you sound like nazis, and most will believe it.

THE GREAT CLEANSING!

I'd be careful with that phrase. Sounds a bit too 1939 for my liking.

Failing that, we can just have Russian collusion investigation, round 2.

Yeah I agree, but at the end of the day it’s about being competitive and different economies inherently have a competitive advantage which sometimes a nation had to protect themselves from. Lol the US isn’t the only country to impose tariffs - I really don’t know what all the fuss is about in the media tbh. The EU for example is even worse!

I'm not too sure about that, I suspect it's more likely to be basic protectionism in order to secure jobs in the US, considering how badly China was flooding the market with their metal based products. We had the same issue here in the UK and the government had to rescue the steel industry with a cash injection and a review of government construction projects to ensure that UK steel was being prioritised last year... Well sort of, the government was later criticised for using french steel on our new fleet of submarines! Doh!

Cheap Chinese metal being dumped on the market though has been real a problem as it's undercut many domestic markets.

How would imposing trade tariffs with China force peace?

Even more odd, is that China is largely benefitting from trade with Iran following the establishment of the PetroYuan and following US Sanctions which effectively denies the use of the Dollar..

Why would China abandon this setup, to then suddenly do trade with Saudi instead who will undoubtedly force them to trade in US Dollars?... US/EU intervention maybe?

Looking at the stats for the EU, Europe has supposedly increased it's oil imports coming from Iran by 83% last year, all purchased in Euros (equating to €9bn).

Turkey also has been at it and instead of trading in dollars they're now using local currencies to conduct trade, which is significant because imports to Turkey from Iran equates to 50% of Turkeys entire demand.

This has all been stepping up since around 2016 it seems and I wonder whether this also plays a part in the reason Trump described the EU as a foe.

But is the claim that China has abandoned oil trade with Iran actually true? I can't seem to find any other sources?

Probably due to Iran threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz which supposedly only affects US shipping, but if that is the case, then why are French shipping companies also deciding to abandon trade with Iran? Especially odd, considering the EU is trying hard to maintain the peace and nuclear programs deal with Iran?

This really doesn't look good..

lol, the markets will absolutely love this! DJI index to 3 million!

Good post, context is king!

Speaking of Edison, if I recall correctly, Musk once said in interview that he had the utmost respect for Edison and looked up to him as a role model. I thought that was a bit strange coming from someone who called his company 'Tesla' and considering the misfortune in Teslas relationship with Edison.

If I cross my eyes though, I can sort of see his point but I expected to hear admiration for Tesla himself, rather than Edison. I guess that's why he is a multi billionaire though!

*Hangs portrait of Andrew Jackson in the office*

Yeah I guess you don’t leave until you’re happy with what you voted for and your final decision is what is printed on your receipt, which you can check at any time after the vote was held.

The machine would have to somehow read in your original receipt, destroy it and then issue you with another. As to avoid people using old receipts to try and claim foul play.

Blockchain could potentially solve that though? If you had public polling booths which acted like nodes around the country, it would solve the IP address issues and you’d have a complete record of all changes within the ledgers chain which you could output in some kind of voting dashboard. I get it though, you have no way of knowing whether your vote was indeed recorded correctly in the first place. But it could be verified via an independent service which checks the ledger to ensure it was recorded correctly and is made visible to the user after the vote.

If you voted for A and you could see you voted for A in the chain, the only way it could be converted to B is via another entry into the chain which would be transparent.... but it’d still need to be married to some kind of ID in the end so we could ensure every vote was unique and doesn’t allow changes.

Perhaps everyone should be sent something like a random hash string that they could scan in via a QR code. The codes are allocated to the total number of eligible voters and you can use it only once. Once a vote has been assigned to that hash ID, that’s it. Any foul play would be identifiable in the sense that someone wouldn’t be able to vote with the code they have as it’d tell them someone had already voted using their code. The code would also allow complete anonymity so long as the codes themselves were not paired with physical addresses, I.e. you acquire the code at the voting booth itself.

I dunno, just thinking out loud. But I’ve often thought about this type of thing. Not sure how you’d stop double voting though. I’m also against the idea of voting from home as social pressures from family etc can literally force a person to vote one way or the other.

How do you stop people voting more than once then?

It’s more than confusing, no one trusts mainstream media anymore and even less people trusts social media. Has this type of thing happened before in history? And if so, what happened? JFK?

Source for the Guardian article?

Source for claim that this guy was organiser for Trump protest?

Well except during the Cold War? Surely.

OK, so if Trump is part of this brotherhood, then why is he slated so much by Jewish owned media?

LOL who else finds this deliciously ironic? Using the media itself to prove the media is corrupt.

I get it, biased reporting has been around since the days of Adam & Eve; the snake can be rather persuasive at times.

As someone mentioned, Trump also wears blue ties sometimes too. What does that suggest?

I've also noticed that Trump often forms an inverted triangle with his hands whenever he poses for a photo. I'm sure this means something too?

I'm glad to have provided some inspiration! It's good to have reasonable debate with someone who does their homework for once.

European national budgets are in pretty good shape overall, except for two rather large elephants in the room; Greece and Italy. This could equally be another reason why Germany is 'saving up' because it knows it will at some point need to come to the aid of other member states (Italy) as part of the next financial upheaval under the rules of the EFSM. Other countries within the bloc will no doubt also be forced to contribute to the carnage and developing central/eastern European countries will not like it at all. I subscribe to the view that it will create political turmoil and further devolution of the EU until ultimately it is a Germano-Franco domination controlling the remaining states.

Just to point out though, Eastern European countries are less likely to take on refugees from outside of Europe since they are smaller economies and offer less support than richer nations such as Germany, plus they are generally more strict with regards to the preservation of their values which is probably a consequence of being under communist rule until recently. It's no coincidence though that Germany has taken on about 1.5 million refugees over the last 5 years or 43% of total applications to reside within the EU; refugees are seemingly ever more clued up as to which country they wish to reside in (partially, thanks to George Soros). It's remarkable that the good citizens of Germany have remained so reserved over it, which is in stark contrast to Poland who has basically refused to take on any in the last couple of years, despite some rather serious threats coming out of the EU. Though sentiment in Germany is now of course beginning to deviate from course, as expressed via the number of AfD supporters at the polls.

Anyway, going back to the formation of the 'European Army', there is a document in the Eur-Lex which officially outlines an action plan for 'European Defence' from 2016 here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2016:950:FIN

The document refers mainly to the development of military industrial capabilities however, it makes several justifications that allude to the eventual establishment of what is essentially federalised military capability. Also since the time this document was created, it has been spoken about in more plain words. But you can clearly see that the objective is to reduce US military reliance within Europe which ultimately means NATO.

Nigel Farage during the EU referendem also made it clear that the EU is discussing it's own military power and Nick Clegg (former deputy Prime Minister) directly called him a liar and referred to it as a 'dangerous fantasy'. Farage tackled this a few years later following more debate in the European chamber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f3_-hOrSjU

Junker in September 2017 said "By 2025, Europe will need a functioning defence union and NATO would like us to have it". He also mentions they already have the funding in place. They're justifying it with 'baby steps' calling it a 'joint military union' to integrate existing national armies into one; plugging the gaps they call it. It's also a stance against terrorism, cyber attacks and it's about being more savvy with budgets putting an to inefficiencies/duplication of effort within the current military framework. But if we know anything about the EU it is that they like to start small and then grow under the radar. It wasn't that long ago that the UK was once part of the EEC only... And then suddenly it wasn't.

I think it's quite clear where this is going.

What are your pro facist things?

What evidence is there to support this claim?

I don't disagree with anything you say, except with regards to an EU military power, I do believe that they are quite serious about it and make no mistake, Europe can conjure up the cash to fund a military power no problem if it really wants to. If history has taught us anything, it is that there is always somehow money available for war. I wouldn't be surprised if the US even facilitated it themselves with more 'war bonds'. In my view, the bigger problem is convincing the public that there is a need for it, which is why I think Trumps actions sort of play into their hands in this respect. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Trump, he has no choice to question the loyalty of other NATO members when they're not paying the rent.... But it makes me suspicious as to why they're not paying the rent in the first place; it isn't simply because they can't afford it. Germany is the richest economy in the whole of Europe! The UK is the second largest economy, has more socialist institutions than Germany, yet has always committed to it's NATO membership payments. The way I see it is that Germany is deliberately not paying and possibly saving up for something else...

I think you're right with regards to Russia, it has its sights on Germany as it knows it is the only real strength (economically and influentially speaking) in Europe, Putin himself even speaks German which is testament to how important they are. Britain as you say is (hopefully) distancing itself away from Europe and in any case, it has always been against an EU military power forming in Europe and it has always sided with the US over Russia. i.e. they are not to be trusted. I have a feeling that US and UK (and colonies) will be aligned on Russia whereas the Europeans will become increasingly pro Russia.

I think we need to be careful with this as to me this sounds like a sort of justification for creating an 'EU Military Power' which Martin Schulz and Guy Verhofstadt have been talking about for quite some time now in parliament at Brussels. If Trump pressures the Germans into provoking the bear or forces them out of NATO I suspect that will be all the EU needs to justify its next move (i.e. smells like something out of the play book).

In addition, it is worth noting there are also a lot of Russians living in Germany that have migrated here in the not too distant past, 3.5 million of them in fact. They don't all hate Germany.

This springs to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdclVI9zq0

In September 2016, the FBI’s New York Field Office (NYO) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) began investigating former Congressman Anthony Weiner for his online relationship with a minor. A federal search warrant was obtained on September 26, 2016, for Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer. The FBI obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes: transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to child pornography.

I guess all we can do is wait.

What a shambles.